Deadline Hollywood reports that Netflix has “had conversations with The River producer ABC Studios about” saving the sure-to-be-cancelled show. The story does disclaim that the conversations are merely exploratory but as with other stories of this ilk, that could merely mean “they didn’t laugh and hang up when I brought up the topic.” With Netflix in the content game and having cash to spend there will no doubt be more of these stories, but goodness, why would they pick up The River?

Deadline notes that heavily serialized shows work well with services like Netflix, and that’s true. Deadline also persists that the percentage increase due to DVR viewing is a reason Netflix should consider saving canceled broadcast shows and that’s nonsensical. That’s not a metric that should be considered much in terms of picking up a show, that’s something that inevitably happens with all low-rated scripted shows. By that metric, Netflix should save The Firm, it increased a whopping 100% over its live plus same day DVR viewing when a full week was added in the most recent Live+7 ratings available.

I guess it’s time to resurrect the “DirecTV Save Our Show Top 10” as “Netflix Save Our Show Top 10.” After saving Friday Night Lights and Damages, DirecTV said it was out of the “save a low-rated show” business. I’m not sure The River would make the top 10.

NCIS, New Girl and The Biggest Loser were each adjusted up a tenth of a ratings point with adults 18-49 versus Tuesday’s preliminary ratings. There were no other adjustments with adults 18-49 for the night.

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via press note:

At 8pm, ABC’s Last Man Standing dominated its comedy competition on Fox, leading Raising Hope by 3.2 million viewers and by 19% in Adults 18-49. In fact, ABC self-starter Last Man Standing finished as Tuesday’s most-watched comedy overall, attracting nearly 2 million more viewers than Fox’s New Girl at 9pm.

· Continuing to improve its time slot year over year, Last Man Standing boosted the half-hour for ABC by 1.5 million viewers and by 19% in Adults 18-49 over original programming on the year-ago night.

In the 8:30pm half-hour like its lead-in, ABC’s Cougar Town towered over Fox’s competing comedy, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, by 53% in Total Viewers and by 33% in Adults 18-49.

· Cougar Town grew by double-digits week to week in Total Viewers (+10%) and Adults 18-49 (+14%), generating its biggest audience since its season premiere 5 weeks ago – since 2/14/12.

During the 9 o’clock hour, ABC’s season finale of The River was up week to week by 8% in Adults 18-49, by 18% in Women 18-34 and by 13% in Women 18-49.

CBS won the night in both adults 18-49 and total viewers and the return of its originals seemed to hurt Fox’s comedy lineup. But although it was the night’s highest-rated and most-watched show, NCIS saw a season low 3.3 adults 18-49 rating in its first outing since Daylight Saving Time. NCIS: Los Angeles was down three tenths to a 2.8 adults 18-49 rating. Unforgettable was up two tenths from its last original to a 2.1 adults 18-49 rating.

Fox’s entire sitcom lineup saw season lows including New Girl with a 2.6 adults 18-49 rating. Earlier in the night Raising Hope was down two tenths to a season low 1.6 adults 18-49 rating. I Hate My Teenage Daughter and Breaking In also slumped two tenths vs. last week to season low 1.2 and 1.3 adults 18-49 ratings respectively.

ABC’s Cougar Town perked up two tenths versus last week to a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating, but Last Man Standing fell to a series low 1.9 adults 18-49 rating. In its finale, The River was up a tenth from last week to a 1.4 adults 18-49 rating.

The CW’s 90210 and Ringer were each up a tenth with adults 18-49 vs. last week to 0.7 and 0.5 adults 18-49 ratings respectively.

* At 12:35 a.m., “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (1.5/5 in metered-market household) beat CBS’s “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” (1.2/4). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, “Late Night” (0.6/4 in 18-4) topped “Late Late Show” (0.3/2).

* At 1:35 a.m., “Last Call with Carson Daly” averaged a 0.8/4 in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters

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NOTE: All national ratings are “live plus same day” from ielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.

Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

Fox’s New Girl dipped 10% to a series/season low 2.7 adults 18-49 rating, vs. a 3.0 rating last week, but with CBS in repeats it still was the top rated show of the night. Raising Hope fell 14% to a 1.8 adults 18-49 rating, vs. a 2.1 rating last week. I Hate My Teenage Daughter plunged 19% to a 1.3 adults 18-49 rating, vs. a 1.6 rating last week. Breaking In was down 12% to a 1.5 adults 18-49 rating, vs. a 1.7 in its season premiere last week. Checking on the series/season lows for those last three shows now.

Fox & NBC originals and CBS repeats tied in the adults 18-49 ratings on the night.

Following a Last Man Standing repeat, Cougar Town hit a series low 1.4 adults 18-49 rating, vs. a 1.5 rating last week. The River hit a season/series low 1.3 adults 18-49 rating, vs. a 1.5 rating last week. Body of Proof had a 1.4 adults 18-49 rating, even with its episode from two weeks ago.

The Biggest Loser had a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating matching its season low rating last week. The series premiere of Fashion Star drew just a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating.

At 12:35 a.m., “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (1.3/4 in metered-market households with an encore) beat CBS’s first-run “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” (1.1/4). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, “Late Night” (0.5/3 in 18-49 with an encore) topped “Late Late Show” (0.3/2).

At 1:35 a.m., “Last Call with Carson Daly” averaged a 0.8/3 with an encore in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters

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NOTE: All national ratings are “live plus same day” from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.

Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

The Biggest Loser was adjusted up a tenth of an adults 18-49 ratings point versus Tuesday’s preliminary ratings. NBC’s Decision 2012 ‘Super Tuesday” coverage was adjusted down two tenths. There were no other 18-49 adjustments with originals but the Last Man Standing repeat at 8pm was adjusted down a tenth.

At 8pm, ABC’s repeat Last Man Standing stood as the 2nd most-watched TV show over original competition, outdrawing Fox’s time-period premiere of Raising Hope by 15% and NBC’s original The Biggest Loser by 2%.

The encore Last Man Standing produced sharp year-to-year gains for ABC in the half-hour in viewers (+31%) and young adults (+40%), over repeat programming on the year-ago night.

Building on its Adult 18-49 lead-in (+7%) at 8:30pm, ABC’s Cougar Town delivered 16% more Total Viewers than Fox’s time-slot premiere of I Hate My Teenage Daughter.

Despite airing out of a repeat Last Man Standing this week, ABC’s Cougar Town saw its Viewer count grow week to week and equaled a season-high with Women 18-34.

During the 9 o’clock hour, ABC’s The River grew its overall audience week to week (+4%) and surged 27% to achieve a best-since-premiere number with Women 18-34.

Increasing from its lead-in by 12% at 10pm, ABC’s repeat Body of Proof ranked #2 in the hour, topping NBC’s Decision 2012 by 1.6 million viewers. In addition, the ABC repeat drama tied the NBC News program among Adults 25-54.

NBC notes that its shows ran out of pattern in some markets (likely due to election results) and that the fast affiliate numbers are not reliable for NBC and subject to more significant adjustments than normal. That could be the case with some of the other networks as well.

Fox won the night with adults 18-49 led by New Girl which was steady vs. its last original with a 3.0 adults 18-49 rating. Raising Hope was also even with its last telecast with a 2.1 adults 18-49 rating. I Hate My Teenage Daughter was down 20% from its last telecast in December (which had an X Factor lead in) to a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating. Fox will say that Breaking In was up 31% from last year’s season finale to a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating, but…retentionista and non-retentionista alike will not love those numbers. On balance I’d guess Fox is happy that Raising Hope held up OK at 8pm and that New Girl did fine without Glee as its lead-in.

I Hate My Teenage Daughter didn’t exactly hit the ball out of the park with a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating, but unless or until any adjustments are made in the finals, it can claim head-to-head adults 18-49 supremacy over Cougar Town which was down 6% to a series-low 1.5 adults 18-49 rating. The River was steady (albeit at its low) with a 1.5 adults 18-49 rating.

The Biggest Loser was down 5% to a season-low 1.9 adults 18-49 rating (but please see disclaimer in red at the top of the post).

CW’s 90210 returned with its first original in four weeks and was steady with adults 18-49 with a 0.7 rating and was also steady with adults 18-34 and women 18-34 vs. its last original. Ringer was up a tenth with adults 18-49 to a 0.5 rating. and had its best rating with women 18-34 (0.8) since November 29.

Late-night results are below the primetime data.

Broadcast primetime ratings for Tuesday, March 6, 2012:

Time

Net

Show

18-49 Rating

Viewers (Millions)

8:00

CBS

NCIS (R)

2.4/4

14.37

FOX

Raising Hope

2.1/6

4.79

ABC

Last Man Standing (R)

1.4/4

5.55

NBC

The Biggest Loser 8-10p

1.9/5

5.71

CW

90210

0.7/2

1.29

8:30

FOX

I Hate My Teenage Daughter

1.6/4

3.78

ABC

Cougar Town

1.5/4

4.38

9:00

FOX

The New Girl

3.0/8

5.95

CBS

NCIS: Los Angeles (R)

1.9/5

11.89

ABC

The River

1.5/4

4.20

CW

Ringer

0.5/1

1.24

9:30

FOX

Breaking In (Season Premiere)

1.7/4

3.60

10:00

CBS

Unforgettable (R)

1.4/4

8.25

NBC

Decision 2012

1.0/3

3.14

ABC

Body of Proof (R)

0.9/2

4.65

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via NBC press note:

In Late-Night Metered Markets Tuesday night:

In Nielsen’s 56 metered markets, household results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 2.2/6 with an encore telecast; CBS’s “Late Show with David Letterman,” 2.3/6 with an encore; and ABC’s combo of “Nightline,” 2.8/7; and “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” 1.3/4 with an encore.

In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 0.7/3 with an encore; “Late Show,” 0.5/2 with an encore; “Nightline,” 0.8/4; and “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” 0.4/2 with an encore.

At 12:35 a.m., “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” (1.1/4 in metered-market households with an encore) trailed CBS’s original “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” (1.2/4). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, “Late Night” (0.4/2 in 18-49 with an encore) topped “Late Late Show” (0.3/2).

At 1:35 a.m., “Last Call with Carson Daly” averaged a 0.7/3 with an encore in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.

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NOTE: All national ratings are “live plus same day” from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.

Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.

Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.

Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)

Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.

The full-length trailers probably will not be available until after ABC’s upfront presentation which is today at 4pm ET, and I’ll post them as soon as I see them, but here are the clips videos that were released:Update: here’s the Good Christian Belle’s clip: